Trump’s Bizarre Claim on Hush Money Trial Gets Brutal Fact-Check
Donald Trump claimed that a massive police presence has shut down traffic for blocks around the Manhattan courthouse where his hush-money trial is being held, preventing his supporters from showing...
View ArticleHush-Money Witness Reveals Trump’s Plan to Influence 2016 Election
A longtime friend of Donald Trump’s admitted on the stand Tuesday that their relationship had devolved into an orchestrated scheme to influence the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.David Pecker, the...
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Republicans Have Outrageous Response to Columbia University Protest
Republicans have started commenting on the Columbia University protests staged in support of Gaza—and unsurprisingly, the comments have been lackluster, punitive, and completely beside the...
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Hush-Money Witness Unmasks Team Trump’s Shady Inner Workings
It seems Donald Trump didn’t want to leave any trace of certain conversations with a tabloid magnate just before the 2016 election. During Trump’s hush-money trial on Tuesday, David Pecker, the former...
View ArticleMike Johnson Steps Smack Into a Major House Intra-GOP Foodfight
Another conservative appeared to be sour on House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday amid what has turned out to be a major party upheaval.Texas Representative Chip Roy said he is “beside himself” after...
View ArticleMitch McConnell—Yes, Really—Gives Sickest Tucker Carlson Burn
After a large bill approving aid for Ukraine and Israel passed the Senate Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stood triumphant—and directed the blame for the aid package’s holdup at former...
View ArticleThe Latest Supreme Court Case on Abortion Is the Scariest One Yet
The Supreme Court will hear another abortion case on Wednesday, providing the nation’s highest court with another opportunity to ban the medical procedure.The case, United States v. Idaho, will argue...
View ArticleHow Trump and the GOP are Using RFK Jr. to Pull a Big Scam
New polls this week served up a surprise: They showed Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential run pulling more support from Donald Trump than from President Biden. And even some Republicans are publicly...
View ArticleIf Biden Wants Young Climate Voters, He Should Back a Gaza Ceasefire
On Monday, Earth Day, Joe Biden highlighted several steps his administration is taking to make good on its climate goals: using $7 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act to make grants that make...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Trying to Break Another Democracy
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who is barred from seeking public office until 2030, held a grievance-laden rally Sunday in Rio de Janeiro. Against the alluring backdrop of Copacabana...
View ArticleEveryone Hates This Election
Every presidential election is billed as the most important of our lifetime. But in 2020, voters seemed to actually believe it. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump’s growing authoritarianism,...
View ArticleA Simple Fix for Texas’s Right-Wing Courts: More Judges
Judge James Ho has one of the best jobs in the world right now. Thanks to the quirks of federal case assignment rules and the winds of political fate, he gets to serve on the Fifth Circuit Court of...
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Lost in the Five Stages of Grief
Early in the fifteenth century, an anonymous text on how to face death appeared. Titled Speculum artis bene moriendi (The Mirror of the Art of Dying Well), it counseled readers to remember that dying...
View ArticleGeorge Santos Congressional Bid Ends Exactly How It Started: In Chaos
George Santos just pulled another fast one on… well, anybody who still believed in George Santos.The disgraced former lawmaker dropped his renewed bid for Congress on Tuesday, claiming that he didn’t...
View ArticleTrump’s Untethered 2AM Rant Seems Unlikely to Help His Gag Order Fight
Donald Trump must sense the walls closing in. At 2:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, the former president begged Republicans to step in and save him from his hush-money trial in a long, rambling two-post...
View ArticleThe Insane Moment Tennessee Republicans Voted to Put Guns in Schools
Tennessee House Republicans have pushed through a bill that will allow teachers and staff to carry guns in public schools, causing the viewing gallery—filled with teachers, parents, and students—to...
View ArticleDemocratic Rep. Makes Outrageous Comparison to Columbia Protests
While much of the ignorant takes about Columbia University’s pro-Palestine divestment protests have come from the right, Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has decided to offer one of his own...
View ArticleAnti-Choice Lawyer Gives Away the Game in SCOTUS Abortion Case
The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in United States v. Idaho Wednesday—and it was not smooth sailing for the Gem State and its abortion ban.At the crux of the case is whether pregnant...
View ArticleGOP Senator Shreds “Uninformed” Marjorie Taylor Green for Party Drama
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s futile fight to stop aid to Ukraine, and her weak attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, has not endeared her to fellow Republicans in Congress, who now worry about the damage...
View ArticleMeet The Shady Firm Helping Trump Pay All His Legal Bills
Donald Trump is in the tank for 91 criminal charges and four criminal trials—but how he’s paying for all his legal counsel could also be putting him into some murky water.Trump’s various political...
View ArticleHere’s Proof of How Much Trump Helped with Michigan Fake Electors
A Michigan state investigator revealed in court Wednesday that Donald Trump, his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and his former attorney Rudy Giuliani are considered unindicted...
View ArticleTrump’s Failing Media Company Desperately Scrambles to Find Scapegoat
Donald Trump’s social media company has lost so much money that the CEO is asking Congress to look into what might be causing it. Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman himself, wrote a letter to...
View ArticleTrump Is Livid He Has to Obey the Law in Hush-Money Trial
Donald Trump is still furious that he has to follow the same rules in his New York hush-money trial as every other U.S citizen—mainly, that he actually has to attend the proceedings.The GOP...
View ArticleMAGA Rage at Mike Johnson Suddenly Takes a Dark and Dangerous Turn
Now that the House has passed military aid to Ukraine, MAGA personalities like Donald Trump Jr. and Tucker Carlson have joined Marjorie Taylor Greene in attacking House Speaker Mike Johnson as a...
View ArticleRon DeSantis Is Letting Religious Chaplains Roam Public Schools
It’s no big deal, he said.When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week signed a bill allowing religious chaplains into public schools, he insisted he was only returning public schools to their...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Weird Excuse for Tesla’s Tumble: We’re Not a Car Company!
Elon Musk is prone to strange asides in all aspects of his life, but Tesla’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week found him in rare form: Speaking to investors, the CEO droned on about everything...
View ArticleMike Johnson’s Cynical, Grandstanding Visit to Columbia University
Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled Arthur Vandenberg as he adroitly steered desperately badly needed military aid to Ukraine around isolationists in his own party. Vandenberg is best...
View ArticleBiden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week
April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working people. We know, from Michael D. Shear of The New York...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Repealing the Comstock Act?
Conservative groups believe the United States already has a national abortion ban on the books, just waiting to be enforced: It’s the Comstock Act of 1873, a long-ignored law, largely considered a dead...
View ArticleHow Paul Manafort Turned Trump Against Ukraine
This week’s passage of a military aid package to Ukraine means that Donald Trump’s efforts to block American provisions for Kyiv have, for the first time in months, faltered. But while isolationism and...
View ArticleWhy Would Alina Habba Admit This About Trump’s Hush-Money Case?
One of Donald Trump’s most visible attorneys just made another legal faux pax—but this time, the person most upset with her might be her own client.Alina Habba admitted Wednesday night that Trump...
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Trump Brutally Mocks Latest “Gutless” Republican to Endorse Him
Donald Trump couldn’t resist throwing an insult at the latest high-profile Republican to endorse him: his former attorney general, Bill Barr. In a late-night Truth Social post on Wednesday, Trump...
View ArticleSouthern Autoworkers Call B.S. on Republican Anti-Union Agitprop
The UAW’s successful unionization effort last week at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee—the first successful unionization effort at a car factory in the South since the 1940s—is breaking the...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Makes Disturbing Immunity Claim Before Supreme Court
Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former president has immunity for trying to overturn the 2020...
View ArticleCan Anything Stop Rudy Giuliani from Pushing Election Fraud Lie?
Arizona has indicted nearly two dozen of Donald Trump’s allies and affiliates for their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and...
View ArticleTrump’s Bad Day in Court Gets Even Worse with E. Jean Carroll Loss
Donald Trump is going to have to pony up $83 million to E. Jean Carroll after all, after a judge on Thursday struck down Trump’s latest attempt to get a new trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided...
View ArticleKey Hush-Money Trial Witness Admits He Broke Law to Help Trump
Donald Trump’s old friend-turned-key-witness in his New York hush money trial blatantly admitted Thursday that he violated campaign finance laws to help the former president’s 2016 campaign.David...
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Judge Skewers “Oblivious” Weinstein Ruling with Chilling Warning
Disgraced Hollywood producer and serial abuser Harvey Weinstein had his 2020 rape conviction overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday, but not everyone on the bench agreed with the...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Might Put Trump Above the Law
Thursday’s oral argument in United States v. Trump might have been the most surreal session ever held in the Supreme Court’s 235-year history. At issue was whether past, present, and future presidents...
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Key Witness Says Trump Knew About Every Single Hush Money Payment
During his testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Thursday, former tabloid magnate David Pecker wasted no time in blaming Trump completely for the whole scheme. Pecker, ex-CEO of American...
View ArticleThe Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis
This week, coverage of the campus protests and solidarity encampments at Columbia University reached a fever pitch. They have attracted statements from the White House and from Israeli government...
View ArticleEven More People Were in on Trump’s Hush-Money Scheme Than We Knew
Donald Trump’s old friend David Pecker is still dishing the dirt on the stand in the real estate mogul’s New York hush money trial, revealing on Thursday that the decision to catch and kill former...
View ArticleUvalde Parent Obliterates Police Response to Texas University Protest
Uvalde parent Brett Cross has some words for Texas police, after their brutal crackdown on Texas university students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza.At the University of Texas at Austin...
View ArticleWhy Team Biden Is So Angry at The New York Times’s Coverage Of Trump
An excellent new Politico report by Eli Stokols has exposed deep tensions between The New York Times and the White House. President Biden’s team believes The Times isn’t adequately capturing the threat...
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The Wrong Question to Ask About Climate Change
Remember when people weren’t even sure climate change was real?According to a new CBS News poll, 70 percent of Americans support the “U.S. taking steps to reduce climate change.” That’s a big number—so...
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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s...
View ArticleCan We Become a Country of “Joiners”?
At the turn of the century, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone, a data-heavy book about the collapse of civic participation in the United States—exemplified by the...
View ArticleChallengers Is a Brutal Game of Desire
In Luca Guadagnino’s 2022 film, Bones and All, Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Timothee Chalamet) were cannibals in love. “I don’t wanna hurt anybody,” Maren tells Travis weakly, to which he drawls in...
View ArticleSam Alito Thinks We’re All Stupid
During Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments over life-saving abortions in emergency rooms, a few things became clear: The male justices are unconcerned by women’s suffering, and Justice Samuel Alito...
View ArticleSamuel Alito’s Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court
On the day Donald Trump took office in January 2017, pondering what he might do to the country’s democratic norms and institutions, I wrote these words: “Trump will destroy them, if keeping Trump on...
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